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One in eight people suffer from chronic hunger in the world

01/10/2013

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Agência Lusa

Rome - One in eight people suffer from chronic hunger in the world , shows the United Nations ( UN) , which recognizes an improvement in recent years , but requests additional and immediate efforts to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal .

In a report released today ( 1 ) , the UN estimates that 842 million the number of undernourished people in the period between 2011 and 2013 , 26 million less than in the previous period ( 2010-2012 ) .

The vast majority of people who suffer from chronic hunger , or who do not have sufficient food for a healthy and active life , is in developing countries , but there are 15.7 million living in developed countries .

In the report The State of Food Insecurity in the World , three UN agencies - the World Food Programme ( WFP ) , the Organization for Food and Agriculture ( FAO ) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ) - warn that further efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals .

According objective number 1 , which aims to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger , the world pledged to reduce by half , between 1990 and 2015 , the proportion of people who suffer from hunger .

" The two-year period , 38 countries have achieved the goal ," write the leaders of the three agencies responsible for the report . " These successes show that with political commitment , effective institutions , good policies , a comprehensive and adequate levels of investment , we can win the fight against hunger ," they add .

The total number of people with chronic hunger has fallen 17 % since 1990-1992 . If the annual rate of decline remains 2015 , the prevalence of malnutrition may be close to those goals set by the UN in 2000 , but achieving them " will require considerable additional efforts and immediate ," say the authors of the document yet .

In introducing the report , the leaders of agencies , José Graziano da Silva ( FAO ) , Kanayo F. Nwanze ( IFAD ) and Ertharin Cousin ( PAM ) make the call : " With a final push in the next two years , we can still reach it ."

Despite progress, the report warns that there are marked differences in hunger reduction . Sub-Saharan Africa has made modest progress and remains the region with the highest prevalence of malnutrition , with one in four ( 24.8 % ) starving .

West Asia is not making progress , while South Asia and North Africa reveal slow progress . The East and Southeast Asia and Latin America were the regions with the greatest progress .

In Southeast Asia, the region with the best results , the number of hungry people fell from 31.1 % to 10.7 % since 1990 .



Source : Agencia Brazil

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